3 Homemade Dessert Recipes You’ll LOVE – NSC Series

3 Homemade Dessert Recipes You’ll LOVE

If you’re like me, the hardest part of this No Spend Challenge is finding ways to still get some dessert. I’ve scavenged my cupboards and come up with three homemade dessert recipes for you to try (with ingredients you probably already have)!

This Sunday we couldn’t make it to our scheduled church visit. The drive was about three hours, but the roads were covered in sheets of ice, the snow was drifting, and the wind was howling. The conditions were just too bad to make it there. So, since we couldn’t make it, we decided it would be a great day for a lazy day at home (that almost never happens).

We slept in a little later than normal, woke up to the sun pouring through our windows and the wind knocking on our walls, put on our slippers, and padded into the kitchen for some breakfast. After searching through our cupboards and deciding that cereal, eggs, and leftovers just don’t sound that good – we decided to make chocolate chip muffins. Not just any chocolate chip muffins though: warm, melt-y, made-in-the-microwave-in-only-two-minutes muffins.

We cuddled into our robes and devoured our mug-muffins with no regard to the below zero temps outside. It was a beautiful morning.

And don’t worry, that’s one of the recipes I’m going to share with you today!

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Creamy Cream Cheese-Cake

Preheat oven to 375.’ Stretch 1/2 the crescent rolls across the bottom of a cake pan (greased). Mix together the sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla. Spread mixture across crescent rolls. Spread the second half of crescent rolls across the top of the mixture. Sprinkle sugar over the top of the crescent rolls. Place in oven and cook until golden brown. Yum!

Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Pudding

Chocolate Pudding – This can be either store-bought or homemade

1 Cup Strawberries – 1/2 Cup Halved and 1/2 Cup Chopped Up

1 Tbsp Sugar

Fudge Ice Cream Topping – This can be either store-bought or homemade

Fill cups with pudding about 3/4 of the way. Place the 1/2 cup chopped strawberries into a blender or food processor with the 1 Tbsp sugar. Blend well. Pour mixture on top of the chocolate pudding. Place 1/2 Strawberry in each cup. Drizzle with fudge ice cream topping. Enjoy!

Homemade Dessert Recipes

There you have it: 3 homemade dessert recipes that you, your family, and your friends are sure to love. In most cases, you probably have these ingredients just lying around the house – why not put them to work? Substitutions work too, if you don’t have what you need! Experiment and see what you can come up with.

Just a recap:

Chocolate Chip Coffee Mug Muffins

Creamy Cream Cheese-Cake

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Pudding

Now, if you didn’t remember, today is day 12 of the No Spend Challenge – we are coming close to being halfway done and we are still somehow making it through. I hope that you guys are as well!

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I totally get that! The cheesecake in this post has a different texture than most cheesecakes – you should try! I don’t know if you’d like it, but it’s worth a shot, right? I hope your husband likes it either way! 🙂 Let us know how it turns out!! Thanks for reading, Melanie